This week Darien sits down with fellow Floridian Quincy Walters, a reporter at WBUR, Boston's NPR station. You are all going to appreciate this conversation on radio storytelling and how that plays out when the subject is disaster - they cover a lot of ground including the dynamic between editor and reporter, and reporter and researcher. What are the ethical considerations of arriving in the aftermath of a traumatic event with a microphone to "extract" a story (or research data)? That and more i...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 68
Luis Gallegos, an Assistant Principal at Alliance Ouchi, a high school in Los Angeles, joins Darien on today's show! Luis is a public school educator and has served in schools throughout New England and Los Angeles, CA. As a queer, Latinx school leader, he works from a social justice lens with the goal of empowering students to dismantle systems of oppression. The conversation unpacks the inequitable impacts of COVID-19 on public schools, teachers, students and families, and illustrates again th...
Jan 25, 2021•57 min•Ep. 67
Today Darien catches up with R. Shawn Abrahams, a genderqueer black scientist practicing ascent with modification. They study phylogenomics, evolution, and super powers! This conversation about evolution, food politics, extinction and the Anthropocene is a wonderful demonstration of the fact that understanding risk involves appreciating the deep interrelationships of all life. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you ge...
Jan 18, 2021•59 min•Ep. 66
This week Darien sits down with Dr Fayola Jacobs, assistant professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The conversation focuses on the black feminist lens that Dr Jacobs brings to the topics of disaster planning, environmental justice and urban planning. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Black feminism and radical planning: New direct...
Jan 11, 2021•52 min•Ep. 65
Welcome back for Season 4!!! As always, thanks for joining us once more - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. This season Jason and Ksenia are joined by a new co-host, Darien Alexander WIlliams! Today we give some context to the new season, discuss the key themes that emerged and reflect on why we have encouraged the conversation in certain directions. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever ...
Jan 04, 2021•38 min•Ep. 64
Thank you all for joining us this year - We hope you enjoyed Seasons 2 and 3, which first aired in 2020, and learned as much as we did from our amazing guests! Today we bring you our Christmas Special for 2020! Listen in for some festive antics, and weird and adorable facts and stories from around the world. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: An anarchist guide to Christmas ...
Dec 23, 2020•35 min•Ep. 63
Today we bring you a special live streamed episode that we recorded in September 2020 with several members of the Disaster Capitalism & COVID-19 Working Group, one of the COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research funded by the Natural Hazards Center, and some additional guests that brought perspectives from around the world on this issue. You can watch the livestream recording here ! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favo...
Nov 20, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 62
Thank you for joining us for Season 3! Today we look back at some of our favorite bits from each episode, and look forward to what is next for Disasters: Deconstructed! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Music this week from "Closer" by Ian Post.
Oct 26, 2020•45 min•Ep. 61
Today we welcome Dewald van Niekerk, editor-in-chief of Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, to the show! We hope you enjoy this discussion about academic publishing - we talk about access, audience, language and more! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies Our guests: Dewald van Niekerk (@dewaldvn) Music this week from "Break Me" by M...
Oct 19, 2020•35 min•Ep. 60
This week Dr Sarah DeYoung, core faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk public health! We discuss some of the work that she has been doing in 2020 and broader concerns about trust and communication. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Safe Spaces: Creating a Culture to Support Infant Feeding in Shelters Our guests: Sarah DeYoun...
Oct 12, 2020•31 min•Ep. 59
Thanks to Mihir Bhatt for being with us this week! Mihir is the Director of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), an organization focused on community-based action planning, action research and advocacy in disaster mitigation. Our conversation focuses on how we can learn so much from those experiencing risk, and how we need to center these people and their capacities rather than always bringing external "knowledge" through teaching and training - "too much schooling, not enough ac...
Oct 05, 2020•36 min•Ep. 58
So often we think of "community-based" work as being about the location alone, but this week Zenaida Delica-Willison joins us to discuss her life's work of putting the people that live actually in a place at the center of both disaster related decision-making and narratives. We are so pleased to share this interview that gives us a look into her influential and pioneering work on Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review...
Sep 28, 2020•38 min•Ep. 57
This week we are back again with JC Gaillard to talk about the Disaster Studies Manifesto. Following on from Part 1, we consider responses to more question from our listeners, and then have an overall discussion: 3. What are your relationships with research partners from within/outside your study areas? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Power, Prestige & Forgotten Value...
Sep 21, 2020•40 min•Ep. 56
This is the first of a two part series where some of our listeners and friends reflected on the Disaster Studies Manifesto and responded to some questions that we released for open comment. In Part 1, JC Gaillard joins us to listen to the submissions we received and briefly discuss. We are considering the following questions: 1. Is our current terminology/concepts appropriate for working in a non-Anglophone context? 2. Do our research methodologies serve the needs of those who research and those...
Sep 14, 2020•44 min•Ep. 55
Thank you so much to Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek for joining us again for this week's episode!! We recapped on an amazing Virtual Hazards Workshop in July and discussed hope in the hazards and disaster field, from personal growth to collective action. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Natural Hazards Center Active Hope Rebecca Solnit's website Our guests: Lori...
Sep 07, 2020•44 min•Ep. 54
Today we are joined by Aparna Tandon, Senior Programme Leader at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). Join us for a discussion about the importance of preserving cultural heritage through disasters, and the tensions that arise! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: ICCROM Our guests: Aparna Tandon (@aparnatan)...
Aug 31, 2020•31 min•Ep. 53
Today we are so happy to have the founders of the Nakuru Accord - a call to commit to publicly sharing failures and learning from each other - on the show. Welcome Dani Barrington, Esther Shaylor & Becky Sindall! We love their Twitter account, Wash Failures and it was so much fun to sit down and discuss the importance of failure in research and practice! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Fu...
Aug 24, 2020•34 min•Ep. 52
Today we welcome photographer Charles Fox to the show! We discussed his years of creative work in Cambodia, as a photojournalist and more. It's so important to consider the humanity in all its complexity that exists beyond the "disaster event" images that are often a viewer's only lens into a place. We discuss Charles' book project "Buried" and the collaborative form of storytelling that he undertook with a Cambodian family. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and R...
Aug 17, 2020•31 min•Ep. 51
We are delighted to welcome Barefoot Bob Alexander to the show today! Bfb is a disaster risk management consultant, musician and international man of mystery. Everyone who has met him has a story or two to tell! In this episode we talk about risk communication through song and video and other participatory approaches. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Our guests: Barefoot B...
Aug 10, 2020•26 min•Ep. 50
We love making Disasters: Deconstructed, and this week we speak to some creators that are an inspiration to us! Mitch Stripling and Andrew McMahan are probably no strangers to you - the hosts of Dukes of Hazards. Today we sit down and discuss podcasting; the awkwardness, creative process, and humor when discussing distressing topics like disasters. Check it out! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts...
Aug 03, 2020•28 min•Ep. 49
This week we are so pumped to bring you a fascinating discussion with Dave and Alex from Out of the Woods, a writing collective that recently published the book Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis . We talk about the power of collective creativity, climate crisis, narratives and stories, humanity, capitalism and disaster communism - trust us, it's epic. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podc...
Jul 27, 2020•41 min•Ep. 48
We are so pleased to have Karen Gadbois with us today! She is a reporter and founder of The Lens, a New Orleans based local news source. We discuss the importance of local reporting and the kind of impact that good reporting can have in helping people to demand more accountable and just governance. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: The Lens Our guests: Karen Gadbois (@gadbo...
Jul 20, 2020•32 min•Ep. 47
This week Jason and Ksenia are busy at the Natural Hazards Workshop (it's virtual this year!) but we are so happy to bring you this episode about disaster reporting with possibly our most frequent guest, Dr Samantha Montano! We talk about why reporting about disasters is sometimes off base, and why relationships between scientists and journalists are so necessary. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcas...
Jul 13, 2020•31 min•Ep. 46
Welcome to Season 3!!! Thanks for joining us again - or for this first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. To help us kick off the new season, Drexel University historian Scott Knowles sat down with us for a chat about the importance of historical context to the disaster impacts that we see around us in the present. We can't wait to bring you the rest of the Season 3 episodes. So many wonderful guests! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on ...
Jul 06, 2020•48 min•Ep. 45
Today we bring you a very special episode that we recorded with the editors and some authors of a special issue of Disaster Prevention and Management Journal. The collection of papers commemorates the 10th anniversary of the l'Aquilla earthquake, and drew a range of critical scholarly contributions. We are so pleased to bring you this discussion with 5 wonderful Italian disaster researchers about the work - Giuseppe Forino, Fabio Carnelli, Isabella Tomassi, Angelo Imperiale and Gianmaria Valent....
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 44
Another special episode for you all today! We are discussing positive responses to COVID-19 - examples of how people as individuals and in a variety of groups are reaching out to others in ways that use, reinforce and cultivate capabilities and the institutions that enable humans to thrive together. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favorite app! Please Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts! Our guests: Claudia Gonzalez ( @cgonzalezmuzzio) Emmanuel Ra...
May 15, 2020•40 min•Ep. 43
Thank you all SO MUCH for joining us this season! Welcome to our new listeners, and to those who have been with us from the start, thanks for still being here :) Today we have a wrap up episode for you - Ksenia and Jason discuss some of the key themes and ideas that have emerged and shone in season 2. We hope you enjoy the recap, and we can't wait to see you again in Season 3 in July (and before then, for special content!) Stay safe everyone, and keep fighting! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram an...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 42
This week we are so pleased to sit down with Jamie Vickery to discuss how disasters affect people experiencing homelessness, and some of the deeper issues at play that are too often overlooked. We cover emergency response, policy, trust and narratives, and consider how we might challenge a culture that normalizes homelessness as a cautionary tale. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further informati...
Apr 20, 2020•34 min•Ep. 41
Thanks to Carlee Purdum from the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M for joining us this week to share about her research on disasters and prisoners, and unpack some of the narratives that shape our understanding of incarceration, particularly in the United States. How are prisoners particularly at risk in disasters, and how does the state exploit their status as modern day slaves? Download and listen in to this and more! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @Disaster...
Apr 13, 2020•35 min•Ep. 40
Today we have Kristin Lange from UNICEF visiting with us to talk about people with disabilities! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Guidance on strengthening disability inclusion in Humanitarian Response Plans Our guests: Kirstin Lange Music this week from "Yosemite" by Oliver Michael....
Apr 06, 2020•30 min•Ep. 39
